consciousness
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What Lies Behind the Veil of the Body?
The Guardian recently published an interesting article on the embodied life, by Melanie Challenger: . . . I am unlikely to live to know the answers, but the mysteries continue to draw me. Continue reading
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Looking Away
. . . that story does not make sense. Babies can “report their experience” and they do. They do so loudly. Persuasively. The “medical establishment” apparently managed to ignore the screams. How? Were there no women in the room? No parents? Continue reading
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Transient Global Amnesia: “The Day I’ll Never Remember”
Continuity | “a continuous sense of self” is my description of the same experience: I knew who I was. I recognized my friends, and they tell me I did not seem frightened, just confused. I had a past, but the present seeped out of my mind as it occurred. Who are you if you have… Continue reading
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Consciousness | “a continuous sense of self”
Maybe it’s about interaction. The collision/ connection with other beings. Not just biology, not just intelligence, not just vulnerability or suffering, not just mortality — but … conversation. Not language/ communication exactly, but how it facilitates connection. How it encourages encounters. Perhaps something in that collision, that oh! you are not me then I am… Continue reading
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Continuity | “a continuous sense of self”
I’ve always understood that I’ve lost thousands of days. That they sank into an ocean of others. Too much sameness? Too little attention? Or even, perhaps, too much attention at the time. Too present to record? But there is one day, one specific day, that I know I lost. That I know I will never… Continue reading
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